Re: French PDF manual

[Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>]

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> Well, you can go into the documentation source directory and type 'make 
>> postgres.xml' to get an XML formatted DocBook file automatically.
>> 
>> It has occasionally been suggested to convert the source of the 
>> documentation to XML, but while I'm not opposed to that, I don't see 
>> any specific advantages coming from such a move.

> It would allow us to use xml2po to maintain translations, for one.

Sounds like you can use that today, if you want to; it's just one extra
step.  But would it really be helpful on the documentation?  I see where
.po works for a lot of short, independent error messages, but I don't
see it being real useful for big manuscripts.

			regards, tom lane